iMovie is an application created by Apple Computer as part of their free of charge iLife suite of applications for the Macintosh that allows users to edit their own home movies. In iMovie users can edit, add titles, and music. Effects such as fade-in, fade-out and slides are included by default. Students can record their voices in iMovie. The built-in camera on the MacBook also allows video to be taken directly from the laptop eliminating the need for a video camera. In addition to video, images (photographs), scanned drawings, Kid Pix creations and other digital formats can also be used in iMovie.
How can I use iMovie in the Classroom
Student book reports
Interview of another person
Oral summary of research project
Tell a story about what is happening in classroom; i.e., special project or unit (butterfly hatching)
Create documentaries, historical reenactments and news reports on current events
Record science experiments, create experimental documentaries and present science projects
Create digital stories and poetry
Present movie adaptations of literature
Present difficult math concepts
Field Trip preview or review / follow up
Public Service Announcement - create 27 second or 58 second PSAs about a topic
Morning News Program for announcements
Example:
Vivaldi - the Four Seasons: Second Grade 2010:
Students drew their impressions of the sections of Vivaldi: Spring, birds, Murmuring Brook, and Thunder and Lightening and we put their illustrations to music:
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iMovie is an application created by Apple Computer as part of their free of charge iLife suite of applications for the Macintosh that allows users to edit their own home movies. In iMovie users can edit, add titles, and music. Effects such as fade-in, fade-out and slides are included by default. Students can record their voices in iMovie. The built-in camera on the MacBook also allows video to be taken directly from the laptop eliminating the need for a video camera. In addition to video, images (photographs), scanned drawings, Kid Pix creations and other digital formats can also be used in iMovie.How can I use iMovie in the Classroom
Example:
Vivaldi - the Four Seasons: Second Grade 2010:Students drew their impressions of the sections of Vivaldi: Spring, birds, Murmuring Brook, and Thunder and Lightening and we put their illustrations to music:
Resources:
tutorials from Apple: http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#imovie
http://corinastechspot.wikispaces.com/file/view/imovie%2Bproject.pd